Foundation Gives $20,000 to Oakland Journalism Collaboration

By: E&P Staff The Sigma Delta Chi Foundation of the Society of Professional Journalists approved a $20,000 grant to help launch an investigative journalism project to continue the work of murdered Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey.

The Foundation?s funding will let the Chauncey Bailey Project continue Bailey?s work where he left off on Aug. 2, 2007, when he was shot, execution-style, as he walked to work.

The grant will go to the SPJ Northern California chapter, a co-founder of the Chauncey Bailey Project, to pay for an initial records search, data collection and source interviews.

The Chauncey Bailey Project is the largest joint action by journalists since the Arizona Project, a 1976 effort pulled together after reporter Don Bolles died from injuries suffered in a car-bomb explosion outside a hotel where he planned a meeting with a potential source.